87 Year Old Driver Kills Fellow s2000 Owner
This isn’t as much about s2000’s as it is about old drivers, but since it involved the death of a fellow s2000 owner, I thought it appropriate. A member on honda-acura.net was killed a few weeks ago while riding his motorcycle down the street in broad daylight. An 87 year old woman made an illegal left turn in front of him and he hit the car’s passenger side door and went over the car. When asked by police what had happened, she apparently had no idea what she had done.
Link to the original article:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/accident-police-saw-2233700-car-neighbor
Now I understand that in this day and age, everything is about not restricting rights to certain individuals, but I think something needs to be done about senile drivers that pose a danger to other motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, etc. It just doesn’t make sense, when old people are killing or injuring young people and they aren’t being stopped because AARP and other organizations have such strong lobbyists to prevent restrictions. Now I don’t necessarily think that a certain age should mean that a license is taken away, but I think age should trigger some mandatory testing, to make sure that these people are still safe to be on the road. An annual vision and driver’s test past 70 for instance would likely revoke the license of many dangerous drivers and allow those who are still good drivers to keep driving. Unfortunately, aside from strong lobbyists, the majority of law makers are approaching older age and are reluctant to make laws that will restrict them personally.
